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BBC Film Crew Arrested At Area 51
Military personnel arrested a BBC film crew at the secret Area 51 military base in Nevada where UFO conspiracy theorists claim US authorities are keeping bodies of aliens and debris of an ET “flying disc” that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.
They were arrested after they had sneaked past the security perimeter, and were forced to lie on the ground for three hours while officials at the base carried out identification checks.
According to Darren Perks, the crew was touring California, Arizona and Nevada with Andre Maxwell and four other UFO enthusiasts. They visited Area 51 to do a night watch to see if they could film anything unusual. According to Darren, the crew arrived at the base on May 14 at about 5 p.m.
Perks said they drove to Rachel, the nearest town to Area 51, then to the “Black Gate” of the base known as “Rachel Gate NT TR Boundary North,” where they stopped their bus about 50 meters from the security perimeter and began filming.
The Daily Mail reports Darren said:
“There was no one around, no guards, no vehicles – nothing. We filmed for approximately 30 minutes and tried to call the guards but there was no one there and no sign of them. So we all decided to walk past the barriers onto the restricted area past the security huts and basically onto Area 51. Nothing happened…”
After they had filmed for another 30 minutes, one of the members of the crew said she saw guards eating dinner and watching TV in one of the security huts. The guards apparently saw them but did nothing. But when a crew member walked to the hut door and knocked, armed guards rushed and forced the crew members to lay on their faces at gunpoint.
